Imaginable Worlds

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Art, Crisis, and Global Futures

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Imaginable Worlds is a thought-provoking collection of essays that explores crises from multiple perspectives—past, present, future, and speculative. Emerging from the shared global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental disasters, it reimagines these emergencies through the lenses of research and art. Featuring voices from artists, authors, and public intellectuals worldwide, the book provokes new ways of understanding survival and invites readers to envision innovative modes of sensing, knowing, and dwelling in an uncertain world.
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This volume will appeal to readers interested in contemporary arts and culture, global crises, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding emergency and resilience. It is suited to those who appreciate thoughtful essays that challenge perceptions and encourage creative thinking about the future.

Description

A collection of essays offering a creative look at crises past, present, future, and speculative.

Starting with the shared experience of crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and a planet sieged by disaster, Imaginable Worlds transforms tragedy into a framework for research and art, imagining a shared world beyond a global experience of emergency. Produced by the Smart Museum of Art and the Projects/Processes essay collection series, an initiative launched by the Serendipity Arts Foundation in New Delhi, this volume brings together the voices of artists, authors, and public intellectuals from a range of fields and locations.

Suraj Yengde, named one of the “25 Most Influential Young Indians” by GQ Magazine; Siyanda Mohutsiwa, the brain behind the viral hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar; and Ho Tzu Nyen, the acclaimed artist behind the ongoing Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia project, are among the diverse contributors who have come together to critically engage with ideas and practices that engage with a partially known or unknown world.

Inviting fresh creative looks at crises past, imminent, immediate, and speculative, Imaginable Worlds considers questions of survival and invites us to imagine new modes of sensing, knowing, and dwelling.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780935573664

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago,David & Alfred Smart Museum,US

Illustration: 30 color plates

Contributors:

Edited by Orianna Cacchione
Edited by Nandita Jaishankar
Edited by Arushi Vats
Contributions by Trina Nileena Banerjee
Contributions by Leticia Bernaus
Contributions by Ho Tzu Nyen
Contributions by Uzodinma Iweala
Contributions by Patrick Jagoda
Contributions by Meena Kandasamy

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 146.0mm

Weight: 286g

Pages: 210

Collections

Arts & Culture Asian History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Orianna Cacchione is the curator of global contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art. With Wu Hung, she curated The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, which was presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smart Museum, and Wrightwood 659. Nandita Jaishankar has worked as an editor, both as a freelancer and at publishing houses in Delhi since 2003. With Rahaab Allana, she cofounded the photography publication PIX, and she is currently working with the Serendipity Arts Festival in Delhi.